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Author: Neil.Vigdor@scni.com (Neil Vigdor)

So this is what Randy Newman means by “I Love L.A.” The scene behind the visitors dugout at Dodger Stadium for Game 3 of the National League Championship Series became an instant sensation on YouTube. “Tootsie” (Dustin Hoffman) was there. So was a rogue mascot dressed up like a bear — the Dodgers don’t have …

For the record, Chris Christie is leaving his political options open. Unplugged, New Jersey’s Republican governor will tell you that if he was president, the boardwalk in his home state would be the only thing open for business. The 11-day-old shutdown of the federal government would be a mere memory, Christie boasted to a group …

Scott Brown hasn’t swapped his Massachusetts plates for ones with “Live Free or Die” — at least not yet. The former U.S. senator made a run for the border Wednesday, not the one many pundits are expecting him to make in New Hampshire next year. Minus his trademark barn jacket and pickup truck, Brown is …

The literary mind who popularized Jack Ryan, the caterpillar drive, Operation Reciprocity and the “ol’ Potomac two step” has written his final chapter. Tom Clancy, the best-selling author of “Patriot Games” and “The Hunt for Red October,” died Tuesday in Baltimore at age 66. What are your favorite scenes from his movies? Here are some …

So many panhandles, so little time for Rick Perry. Texas has one. Ditto for Connecticut, where the governor of the Lone Star State and former Republican presidential candidate is scheduled to visit Monday as part of what some are billing as a job-poaching tour of the Northeast. Despite the nature of Perry’s upcoming trip, which …

Consumed by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre for most of his first six months in the Senate, Democrat Chris Murphy on Monday signaled that he would be willing to consider minor concessions when it comes to universal background checks for firearms purchases if it would help resuscitate federal gun control legislation. Murphy, who represented …

There is an afterlife for Bush Pioneers and Rangers, the monikers given to the top bundlers of campaign contributions for George W. Bush. It can be found on 5.2 acres of Dallas real estate on the campus of Southern Methodist University, home of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. A library, museum and think tank, …

What Hyannis Port is to the Kennedys, Greenwich is to the Bushes. And now the fourth-generation flag-bearer for one of the nation’s most powerful political families is about to make his debut in the fertile stomping grounds of his grandfather and great-grandfather. George P. Bush, who this week filed paperwork to run for land commissioner …